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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4810306, member: 19463&quot;]Are you allowing for the fact that the coins you call antoniniani or aurelianiani (a term I hate) from Aurelian to Diocletian were 4.7% silver so ten of them had the silver of one 47% silver coin of half a century before?&nbsp; I would say there were as many as ten of these later coins for every Severan denarius so the missing silver is not all that missing.&nbsp; The people of that period did not consider those coins copper as many collectors do today but realized that silver is still silver even if it is not 99.99% fine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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